Can the earth be sacred once again?

Can the earth be sacred once again?

$60.00

An evening seminar with Sean McGrath, PhD

7-9 pm, April 2, 2019

We live in the grip of a form of anxiety unknown to Freud, Jung, and Lacan. It is not anxiety over the self, but anxiety over the world without which there would be no selves to worry about. Nature has become an issue for us, whether it be in the form of climate change, mass extinction, or the disturbing possibility that nature is over. At the same time, we despair for humanity: there appears to be no way to move from our knowledge of the current precarious state of the earth to a practice and politics that would rectify it. The despair itself immobilizes us and renders us powerless to make even the smallest efforts toward solutions. In this seminar, we will discuss the ecological anxiety of our present age and look for ways to unfreeze eco-despair by generating language to articulate our hopes and fears. We will explore in some detail the religious quality of the ecological crisis. In the end, we will ask the question: given the Anthropocene, given the Sixth Great Extinction, given the rise of the technosphere, can the earth be sacred once again?

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Can the earth be sacred once again?

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CEU Goal & Objectives:

Goal

To understand the existential and religious dimensions of the ecological crisis and how it affects anxiety and despair in patients and ourselves.

Objectives

Through assigned readings and discussion, participants will:

Understand the nature of ecological anxiety and how it differs from the classical forms described by Freud, Jung, and Lacan.

Identify the kinds of despair and grief arising from witnessing the radical changes to our natural world and their implications for future human and non-human life on this planet.

Grasp the religious dimension of the ecological crisis.

Articulate hopes and fears as a way of working with ecological anxiety and despair.

The New School for Analytical Psychology

The New School for Analytical Psychology in Seattle is a consortium of clinician-scholars. We value the New, with an approach to knowledge that emphasizes our embeddedness in a contemporary cultural context. An ethical obligation to the ‘other’ is a prime concern. Our School of Analytical Psychology honours the ancient, the modern, and the post-modern, embracing education as a never-ending dialogical process that does not hold fast to a single theory or ideology. Analytical psychology emphasizes our origins in the world of clinical analysis.